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(Fourided in 1914)

* published weekly during the college year in heed
interest of Bryn 5 Coljege at the Ma
Building, Wayne, Ra., and ‘Bryn Mawr Co ie.

revelling as Lord Timothy Dexter, jone time
King of Chester, in a grand old Georgian ;
mansion, with the best of brandy, and a circle *
of negregses, poets, astrologers and Mexican
hairless dogs to join him. ; ‘
“Other » men,”. Mr. Marquand veinasits,
“have wished to be what they are not,. but
exter-made this wish come true—by being

gf her investigation versions of a; song
often garying with locality. She writes of
the share of the Negroes of the South in
preserving the ballads and traditional songs
of the early Scotch and English settlers.
Negro ballads, animal. songs, work songs
and railroad songs are set down, Finally.
there is a chapter on Blues, not the kind of
which. Mr. Michael ‘Arlen has written; but

mimeograph his remarks for the day, and
distribute the sheets each’ morning? A
system of weekly quizzés would check up
on the student’s grasp of the mimeo-
graphed outline quite as well as ‘it does
his grasp.of the spoken lecture. The stu-
dent would have an extra hour in which
to «study, the instructor would be spared
the necessity of lecturing, and the stu-



Managing Editor ‘Jnan Lome, ’26°

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’ EDITORS hat pleased - his fancy, most, regardless of -
R. Ricxany, 127 M. Smits, '27_ | dent’s basis for study would be far clearer | the original folk-song Blues. The: author] \ hat he was.” It is entertaining to find that
Fi ASSISTANT. EDITORS and better organized. ‘And the instructor | quotes’ W. C. Handy, their first publisher, | ine business of living, which seemed fine and
= pe By = BEI tenor fa _| could hold office hours once a week to] with the Memphis Blues in 1910; “Blues] .oper enough in old Newburyport, is really) *

are essentially racial, the ones that are genu-
ine—though since they became the fashion
mahy Blues have been written that are not
Negro in character—and they havea basis
in older folk-song. Each one of my Blues

éxplain any points which the class failed
to understand.

such a fanciful affair after all. No one can —
have any doubt who has heard Mr. Mar-
quand explaining Timothy Dexter as an
“important” liver.

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This method. seems to combine all the
neatness of the correspondence school

with all the academic atmosphere of col- His pages, which on their own merits have



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ROBERT-FROST

Never, we are certain, will the Anne
Elizabeth Sheble Memorial Lecture in Eng-
lish give morg wisdom or greater inspiration
‘than inethe hands of Robert Frost. He came
to. Bryn -Mawr an old friend and advisor,
with all the interest and generosity of a
friend, He presented no elaborate piece of

lege. The student, with all morning.
hours free except during his science
courses, would have ‘infinitely more time
to pursue the things in the course which
his particular bent of mind made especially
interesting to him, and which he would
see more clearly on considering the mime-
ographed notes in the quiet of the library
than. when struggling to copy down the
lecturer’s words in class. Certainly a
much fuller, clearer, and more individual
impressionyof the course would result.
And this seems one of the greatest aims
of education, to inspire people to traverse

is based on some old Negro folk-song of

the South.”
“A brown-skinned woman “makes

the Blues.

In Mellows every melody is accompaniea
py a short sketch of the singer from whom
it was learned, a fond, amusing characteriza- |,
Little drawings by Simmons Per-

tion,
sons illustrate the. work-songs.:

‘the Book of American Negro Spirituals

a
preacher lay his Bible down”—says one ot

plenty of charm, are decorated in addition
by Kappel’s suggestive insets of wharves
anl coolies and columned doorways, and by
‘the very fine printing of Little and Ives.

SONGS WITH FLUTE AND STRINGS
TO BE ee AT NEXT CONCERT

Russian String Quartet Quartet Will Visit in
~ Mawr for First Time



has all the songs made famous by the
Hampton and ‘Luskegee Singers, by Paul
Kobeson and Roland Hayes, many of which



research, no brilliant triumph of scholar- For the fourth of the. concert series ¢

ship; but,Aiis gift was the wisdom of long
devotion to art and the charm of his person-
ality. Every day we taste the fruits of
-scholarship; those we do not lack. But
words of the power and. beauty ‘of Robert
Frost’s are rarely heard.



SOUNDING BRASS

What, precisely, is the value of the college
finger-bowl? It was probably désigned
originally to save the priceless college linen
from fruit stains. But now there is no
artistic crime involved in getting fruit juices
on our paper napkins.

Are they intended as a reminder to the
breakfast wolf that she is gently bred? Per-
haps: but if so, they seem to fail so patently
of their purpose as to be completely useless.
Were there ever a drop of-water in their
Great Brass Desert ;they might move-us-to
nobler ways, but their aridity does not appear
to remind most of us of our ladylike up-
bringing.

Our imagination fails here; we cannot
conceive of any other reason for the finger
bowl, Its drawbacks, on the other hand,
- are many and obvious. It means extra work
for the maids to put them out each morning,
and then move them before bringing on the
coffee-toast-and-bacon.

Why not, then, scrap these encumbrances ?
- They could be very useful indeed in other
‘climes and conditions, We could send them
to India, to furnish begging bowls for at
least 500 llamas like Kim’s master. We could
melt them down and strike a mold of Good-
hart Hall, our contribution to the Sesqui-
centennial. Or we could make them into
medals to be given to those undergraduates
who managed to stop talking about mid-year
marks within a we after the holocaust.



MODERNIZING COLLEGE
Most of the courses now given in col-
lege involve little or no discussion on the
part of the- class. Except for science
courses, there is no demonstration which

“~*~ the student could not perfectly well work

out for himself. Every lecture becomes,
therefore; an hour of dictation. The stu-
dent’s attention cannot be held for the

not only the broad cement highway of
the college course, ‘but ‘also the crooked
side streets which are the real city. The
student might even in time come to look
upon a.college. education not asa com-
pulsion, to be evaded as far as possible,
but as a‘ privilege, to be enjoyed to the

“Tuttermost.



There is a chastity in snow +
That would become God’s heaven.
I think that angels bright

In’ raiment white

Would quite

Enjoy

A snowball fight.



ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR
According to Sir Thomas Browne, when
a man at twenty has attained the virtue of
gray hairs, it is superfluous for him to live
longer. As with length of life, so with
other matters—when the virtue has been
attained, persistence is superfluous.

For most women, the virtue of a college
degree is represented by interests, com-
panionship, a lively and telling way of |
thought, If at the end of four years, two
out of three parts of that virtue have been
attained, the degrees. in question should’ be
conferred “cum laude.”

But if at the end of one or two or three
years a prospective Bachelor has found
friends to enjoy, an interest, and power of
mind to direct her in following that interest,
persistence, however, pleasant, for the next
year, or years, is cettainly superfluous.

The virtue of a college degree depends on
nothing so mechanical as the number of
years spent in earning the sheepskin. It is
a small shame not to wait for that honor,
perhaps. It is a much greater shame, in a
short life, to have to reckon one year
superfluous,



, BOOK REVIEW
The Book of American Negro Spirituals,
edited with an introduction by James Wel-
don’ Johnson; musical arrangements by J.

have been arranged before by H. T. Bur-
A long
introduction discusses the origin and de-

spirituals, with reference to
Krehbiel and other

leigh, Clarence White and others.
velopment o
earlier studies by
scnoiars of music,



Pluck and Luck, by Robert Benchley,
j Henry -Holt and Co., New York.

A ‘biography—preferably - auto—of “Mr.

Robert Benchley, becomes more and more

necessary with each of his new publications.

Of course you can see he reads the
Take for instance his essay on the
cruise of the Reasonably, with those notes
on the flora and fauna of the Reebis gulf,
the wee pink sea anemones all rosy from
their ocean dip, the submarine robias. He
also must have read Michael Arlen, or],
he never could have written those nervous
words on Eunice Lovejoy, of the “ringlets
blonde one year like flax, and dark the next}
like those great nets the fishers use to catch |
And the Pullman
cars he must have traveled in, the football
games he must have watched! And what.
those four years at Cambridge, back in
Read “Goethe’s
Love Life,” or “Looking Shakespeare Over”
in Pluck and Luck, or refer to pages 79.
and 100 of the New Year’s College Humor.
Benchley eat his}
church suppers? And is he an-Episcopal-

papers.

the sunbeams with.”

1912, must have been!

But where did Mr.

ian? Those who are will want to know.

There are many days he must have spent
in subways and. department ‘stores, but what |)

about the others?
Apparently. there
there in Pluck and Luck after all.

fines they ask for it.



Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport,
Mass., by J. P. Marquand, Minton, Balch.

& Co., New York.

Biography must always be interesting as]
comment on the common experience. Among |_
comments, Mr. Marquand’s on Timothy

Dexter, is strange and absorbing.

is a biogrdphy right]!
-This is}
the last thing needed and answers every]
difficulty, making the price of the volume]
altogether worth the week’s gymnasium]

under the auspices of the Music Depart-
ment, to be held Monday evening, .Feb-
ruary 15, a very interesting and unusual
program has been planned. It includes -
pieces for Flute, Piano and String Quar-
tette, and songs with accompaniment of
wind and stringed instruments.

Madame Irene Wilder De Calais, Contralto,
will sing. She appeared last season with the
Philharmonic Orchestra of New York as
soloist. in the Verdi Requiem and the
Beethoven Ninth Symphony, under Men-
-gelberg. William Kincaid, First Flautist
of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Horace
Alwyne, Pianist, and the Russian String
Quartette of Philadelphia, will be the
other musicians.

The Russian String Quartette is as fol-
lows: Joel Belov, First Violin; Jacob
Simkin, Second Violin; Sam Rosen, Viola,
and Benjamin Gusikoff, ‘Cello.
BRCM
Trio—Sonata in G
Largo
Vivace
Adagio
Presto
For Flute, Violin and Pianoforte
Song—Chanson Perpetuello
For Voice, Pianoforte and String Quartet
Quartet—Three Pieces for String
Qeartet fics e cee ceeeesoeseers Hiravineky.

“Grotesque”
The Russian Quartet

(a) “Nacht liegt auf den Framden

WEEN... cane cvces Gyases Griffes
(b) Song of the Papanquin

Bearers ........:: Cee vee . Shaw
(c) The Eagle ..........-. ...++-Polak

Quartet—Pastorale at Danse, Arthur Hoeree
1. Lent—Allegretto
2. . Rhythme et joyeuse J

Nuit d’autrefois ...........Rhene-Baton
Serenade Mesuchollane ..Rhene-Baton
‘Jadis: tu m’as aime .. " .Gretchaninow

eeneeee

Dexter was an illiterate tanner of New-
buryport, who speculated, in a way “lucky
for his fortune, unlucky for his reputation.”
For some twenty-five years he filtered the
energy and resources of a very great man)
through a grotesque mind and honest nature.

entire period: it wanders to something

else, and he loses important , points.

- When he comes to review his notes before] yellows, a Chronicle of Unknown Singers,

a quiz, he finds many of them unintelli-. by R. Emmet Kennedy; Boni.

_ gible, because he sae aaa er — On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs, by
because ndwriting is con-| Dorothy Scarborough. Harvard University
it! 5 ayntee of dictation, GO Pies td Lar iomedlgmabteepaca mele oR

embers little or nothing of} Here are’ three bool to. satiety every’ de: |outy either’ his rating among his fellow

he trains himself to copy | sire for Negro sccign,.of the -ooncerteqoer,toroeee of ‘in’ the last quarter
all the lecturer’s words. the drawing-room singer, the family chorus, of the eighteenth’ century, grew from con-| —

nr th nf fre The St mtr‘ he meas mo

Gretchaningw
Trio— “Impressions of a Holiday,” Goosens
In the Hills
By the Rivers
The Water-Wheel
At the Fair.
For Flute, Violincello and Pianoforte .
Mason & Hamlin Piano

Rosamond Johnson; additional numbers by:
Lawrence Brown. The Viking Press.







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